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Preamble:

I lived in lies all my life,
And I’ve been living here for a long, long time,
I know it’s been coming down a while now.

— John J McCauley III, Deer Tick
“Art Isn’t Real (City of Sin)”

There’s a passage in Moby-Dick where Herman Melville compares two lone whaling ships crossing the Pacific to strangers crossing the “illimitable Pine Barrens of New York State.” If these travelers were to encounter each other in such inhospitable wilds, he explains, it would be natural for them to give “mutual salutation” and stop for a while to interchange their news of the world. In whaling argot, this is called a “gam.”

More than a century and a half has passed since Melville wrote those words, and little remains of the “illimitable Pine Barrens” he described on the outskirts of Albany. But the place has become a new kind of wilderness that is equally inhospitable to this traveler. It is a terrain of parking lots, shopping malls, subdivisions and highways. It is a geography of nowhere that stretches from the edge of my town to yours. But we will not be adrift here alone forever.

Kunstler will be here soon. And when he arrives, we’ll have ourselves a gam.

“For those of you wanting a good overview of Kunstler’s thinking and for those of you that want to share JHK with others but may fear being embarrassed by the sometimes ‘salty’ language he can use, this book is a great tool. The format is, by design, conversational. You can digest it in small bites or in large pieces. And the Kunstler world through Duncan’s eyes is not necessarily sanitized, but it is communicated in a way that I think will reach a broader audience.”

“The 320-page New Society Publishers offering was just released in paperback and is based on four years of weekly Kunstler riffs recorded by podcasting journalist Duncan Crary. In his introduction to the book, Crary professes to be merely a host, and sometimes a Kunstler foil, but the two upstate New Yorkers really are kindred intellects.”